Contributors

Triple Canopy has worked with several hundred writers, artists, researchers, activists, architects, curators, educators, lawyers, scientists, and other outstanding people whose accomplishments cannot be circumscribed by profession and whose value cannot be expressed in list form. We are extraordinarily grateful to them.

DJ Sabine
’s work focuses on the exposure and pleasures of African diasporic music, from house to Afrotech to Afrobeat to Haitian roots. Her creative projects include Brooklyn Mecca, Cumbancha, and Oyasound, which is working on an EP. Sabine is now a resident DJ for Fania Records’s Fania Collective. She’s played around the United States and the world and has participated in panel discussions and curated showcases such as Lakay Se Lakay: Home Is Home, a conversation series and party devoted to Haitian electronic artists. Sabine ultimately seeks to create new scholarship, through the African and Haitian diasporic lens, on music, culture, and spirituality.

Georgia Sagri

Georgia Sagri

Julia Samuels

Julia Samuels

Jay Sanders

Jay Sanders

Sukhdev Sandhu

Sukhdev Sandhu
directs the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture at New York University and is the author of Night Haunts: A Journey Through the London Night. He also writes for Bidoun, the Wire, the Guardian, and many other publications.

Jon Santos

Jon Santos
is an artist living and working in New York City. He works in video, sound, performance, and sculpture. Recent performances and projects include Telegraph, at Storefront for Art and Architecture’s gala; The Last Weekend, with Peter Coffin; and Social Mirroring, at the New Museum. Jon is an adjunct faculty member at Pratt Institute and the principal of Common Space, a multidisciplinary design and art studio. He has exhibited widely in group exhibitions at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum (New York).
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Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento

Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento
is an artist, writer, teacher, and lawyer interested in the analysis of property and structures, in both tangible and intangible forms, through legal and cultural discourses and practices.
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Aki Sasamoto

Aki Sasamoto
works in sculpture, performance, video, and whichever other media she needs to get her ideas across. In her installation and performance works, Aki moves and talks inside the careful arrangements of sculpturally altered objects, activating the bizarre emotions that underlie daily life. Her works appear in galleries spaces, theaters, as well as odd sites. Those have included the Kitchen, SculptureCenter, Chocolate Factory Theater, the 2010 Whitney Biennial, and Greater New York 2010 at MoMA PS1 in New York City; National Museum of Art-Osaka and the 2008 Yokohama Triennale in Japan; the 2012 Gwangju Biennial, the 2016 Shanghai Biennale, and the 2016 Kochi-Muziris Biennale. She has collaborated with musicians, choreographers, mathematicians, and scholars. She teaches sculpture at Yale University. She likes food.

Saskia Sassen

Saskia Sassen
is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. Her most recent book is Expulsions: When Complexity Produces Elementary Brutalities (Harvard University Press, 2014).
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Ognjen Šavija

Ognjen Šavija
is a classically trained guitar player, multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, producer, sound designer, and multimedia artist from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. His discography includes three solo albums and nine albums with various groups. He also composes music for film, theater, and sound installations. He is one of founders and an active member of the Ambrosia Cultural Association, Sarajevo.
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Kaneza Schaal

Kaneza Schaal
is an artist based in New York City. She came up in the downtown experimental theater community, first working with the Wooster Group, then with other companies and artists including Elevator Repair Service, Richard Maxwell and New York City Players, Dean Moss, Claude Wampler, Jay Scheib, Jim Findlay, New York City Opera, and National Public Radio. This work brought her to over eighteen countries and venues including Centre Pompidou, Royal Lyceum Theater Edinburgh, REDCAT, the Whitney Museum, BAM, the Kitchen, St. Ann’s Warehouse, and MoMA.
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Erin Schell

Erin Schell
is a designer, illustrator, and graduate philosophy student living in Brooklyn, NY.
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Nathan Schneider

Nathan Schneider
is a writer living in Brooklyn and an editor of the online magazine Killing the Buddha.
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Peter Schwenger
lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and doesn’t get out much.
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Emily Segal

Emily Segal
is an artist and writer based in New York. She is a co-founder of the trend forecasting group K-HOLE and editor-at-large of Flash Art.

Susan Sellers

Susan Sellers
received a BFA in graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1989. She went on to earn an MA in American Studies from Yale University, where her work explored mid-nineteenth-century labor practices in craft industries of printing and typesetting and the emergence of professionalized design practices. She has taught and lectured widely, and her articles have appeared in a number of journals including Eye, Design Issues, and Visible Language. She has held positions in several studios including Total Design and UNA in Amsterdam. Ms. Sellers is a founding partner at the design studio 2×4 in New York City and holds the position of Head of Design at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was appointed to the Yale faculty in 1997 and is currently senior critic in graphic design.

Namwali Serpell

Namwali Serpell
is a writer and associate professor at UC Berkeley. She received a 2011 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award. She was shortlisted twice for the Caine Prize for African Writing, and won in 2015 for her story “The Sack.” Her work has been published in the Believer, n+1, Callaloo, Tin House, McSweeney’s, the New Yorker, and several anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories 2009 and Africa39. Her first book of literary criticism, Seven Modes of Uncertainty, was published by Harvard University Press in 2014. Her first novel, The Old Drift, will be published by Hogarth Press in 2018.

James Sham

James Sham
is an artist living in Richmond. He is pursuing an MFA in sculpture at Virginia Commonwealth University.
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Prageeta Sharma

Prageeta Sharma
was born in Framingham, Massachusetts. Her collections of poetry include Bliss to Fill (2000), The Opening Question (2004), which won the Fence Modern Poets Prize, Infamous Landscapes (2007), and Undergloom (2013). She has taught at the New School and Goddard College and is currently a professor in the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Montana-Missoula, of which she has also served as director. She is the founder and president of the conference/board Thinking Its Presence: Race, Creative Writing, and Literary Studies.

Jeremy Shaw

Jeremy Shaw

Adam Shecter

Adam Shecter
has exhibited widely in New York (venues include D’Amelio Terras, BAMcinematek, Brooklyn Arts Council, Eyebeam, John Connelly Presents, and Deitch Projects), as well as in Miami, Boston and Paris. A graduate of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, he lives and works in Long Island City.
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Kate Shepherd

Kate Shepherd
is an artist who lives and works in New York. Trained in both art and architecture, her oeuvre includes painting, sculpture, and site-specific land art. She is represented by Galerie Lelong (New York, Paris), Anthony Meier Fine Art (San Francisco), and Barbara Krakow Gallery (Boston) and has also exhibited with Galería Elvira González (Madrid) and Bartha Contemporary (London). Her work has been acquired by museums such as the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Indianapolis Museum of Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Phillips Collection; and the Seattle Art Museum. In 2014 Shepherd presented “Fwd: The Telephone Game,” an exhibition of recent work at Galerie Lelong, New York.
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Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman
has been creating work since the mid 1970s, and was recently the subject of a major retrospective in 2012 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Her work will be featured in several prominent group shows in 2014, at the Museum of Modern Art Fort Worth, Texas; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; me Collectors Room/Olbricht Foundation, Berlin; and the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg.

Julia Sherman

Julia Sherman
mines folk traditions, canonical art history, feminist theory, and a range of personal anxieties to create tableaus of fantasy, philosophy, and interrogation. She has published work in the Paris Review, the New York Times, Cabinet, and Hyperallergic.
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Stuart Sherman

Stuart Sherman
(1945–2001) was an artist, performer, and writer.
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Pak Sheung Chuen

Pak Sheung Chuen
is an artist who lives and works in Hong Kong. His work often reflects on the contradictions and absurdities of everyday life in a poetic and humorous manner. He has participated in numerous international exhibitions; he represented Hong Kong in the 53rd Venice Biennale. From 2003 until 2007, his works were published in the newspaper Ming Pao on a nearly weekly basis. He is the author of ODD ONE IN: Hong Kong Diary and ODD ONE IN II: Invisible Travel.

Derica Shields
is a writer, editor, and programmer from London. She has written for the New Inquiry, Rookie, Girls Like Us, the Live Art Almanac, and Flash Art. She is the cofounder of The Future Weird, a (now defunct) screening and discussion series centered on experimental, world-unravelling films by black directors. Most recently, she programmed a series of events on black failure at London’s ICA.

Dan Shiman

Dan Shiman
lives in Marfa, Texas, serving as the archivist and programmer at the Chinati Foundation. A longtime record collector and DJ, Dan is also creator of Office Naps and the Exotica Project, two sites devoted to lost sounds and obscure vinyl.
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Erin Shirreff
is an artist based in New York City. Her work is in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Yale University Art Gallery; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. A monograph of her work was published in 2013.
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Siglio

Siglio
is an independent press in Los Angeles dedicated to publishing uncommon books that live at the intersection of art and literature. Siglio books defy categorization and ignite conversation: they are cross-disciplinary, hybrid works that subvert paradigms, reveal unexpected connections, rethink narrative forms, and thoroughly engage a reader’s imagination and intellect.
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Amy Sillman

Amy Sillman
is a painter living in New York. Her work has most recently been shown in a solo exhibition at Captiain Petzel (Berlin), and in the past at numerous galleries and museums including the Hirshhorn Museum (Washington, D.C.) and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York). Along with painting, Sillman writes occasional essays about art and other artists, draws comics, publishes a zine called The O.G., and teaches at Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.
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Peter Simensky

Peter Simensky

Maxwell Simmer

Maxwell Simmer
is a software engineer and a front-end developer for Triple Canopy. He is the cofounder of Version House and currently lives in Berlin, Germany.
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Xaviera Simmons

Xaviera Simmons
produces installations, sculptures, photographic, video and performative works. Selected solo projects and exhibitions scheduled for 2013–2014 include “Archive as Impetus” with the Museum of Modern Art (New York), “Underscore” at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (Connecticut), and “Open” at David Castillo Gallery (Miami), in addition to many group exhibitions. Her works are included in major museum and private collections worldwide.
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Joshua Simon

Joshua Simon

Nolan Simon

Nolan Simon

Deane Simpson

Deane Simpson
is an architect, urbanist, and professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. He is a former unit master at the Architectural Association, London, professor at BAS Bergen, associate at Diller + Scofidio, New York, and faculty member at the ETH Zürich. His research addresses contemporary urban and architectural phenomena such as the urban implications of demographic transformation, social and environmental sustainability challenges within urban and regional settings, the securitization of the public space, and the spatial conditions that align with the transformation of Scandinavian welfare systems. He is the author of Young-Old: Urban Utopias of an Aging Society (Lars Müller, 2015), and coeditor of The City Between Freedom and Security (Birkhäuser, 2017) and the forthcoming Atlas of the Copenhagens (Ruby Press, 2018).

Lorna Simpson

Lorna Simpson
is known for working in a wide range of mediums including photograph-and-text works, videos, drawings, collage and paintings that confront and challenge conventional views of culture, representation and memory. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Jeu de Paume, Paris; and Haus der Kunst, Munich among others, as well as significant international exhibitions such as the Hugo Boss Prize at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, Documenta XI in Kassel, Germany, and the 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.

Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair
has lived in Hackney since 1968. He is working on a book, That Red Rose Empire, woven from interviews with Hackney artists, writers, and local characters, due to be published by Hamish Hamilton this year.
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Dexter Sinister

Dexter Sinister
is a design and publishing collaborative opened by David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey in 2006 as a “Just-in-Time Workshop & Occasional Bookstore” in a Ludlow Street basement in New York; they were later joined by Sarah Crowner. Dexter Sinister combines the characteristically distinct identities of designer, producer, publisher, and distributor. They propose a heteroclite counterpart to the dominant one-size-fits-all, Fordist, assembly-line style of print production and distribution. In contrast to the juggernaut of contemporary publishing and its economies of scale, the workshop “avoids waste by working on demand, utilizing local cheap machinery, considering alternate distribution strategies, and collapsing distinctions of editing, design, production, and distribution into one efficient activity.”
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Nestor Siré

Nestor Siré
lives and works between Havana and Camagüey, Cuba. He has participated in the Curitiba Biennial, the Havana Biennial, the Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Cuba, the Oberhausen International Festival of Short Film (Oberhausen, Germany), and the Asunción International Biennale (Asunción, Paraguay). Siré was the winner of the 2016 Visa for Creation from l’Institut Français. He has been awarded residencies by Dos Mares (Marseille, France) and the Ludwig Foundation and LASA (Havana). His works have been exhibited at the National Museum of Fine Arts (Havana), the Queens Museum (New York City), Rhizome (New York City), the New Museum (New York City), Hong-Gah Museum (Taipei), UNAM Museum of Contemporary Art (México City), and Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe (Argentina), among other venues.

Skeletons

Skeletons
is a New York-based avant-pop ensemble. The band’s sixth full-length record, Money, was recently released on Tomlab.
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Buzz Slutzky
is a nonbinary transgender Jewish visual artist, writer, and performer based in Brooklyn. They work across multiple disciplines, including drawing, video, and sculpture. Their work moves between autobiographical and historical content, and tends to be comedic. Buzz currently teaches video production at CUNY College of Staten Island and SUNY Purchase, and also studies performance at The Studio.

Ada Smailbegović

Ada Smailbegović
is a poet and critic. Her writing explores relations between poetics, natural history, affect, and animal studies. Smailbegović is the author of Avowal of What is Here (JackPine Press, 2009) and one of the founding members of The Organism for Poetic Research. She is currently completing a dissertation titled “Poetics of Liveliness: Natural Histories of Matter in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Poetry” in New York University’s Department of English.

Christine Smallwood

Christine Smallwood
writes the “New Books” column for Harper’s Magazine. Her reviews, essays, and cultural journalism have been published in the New Yorker, Bookforum, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and many other publications. Her fiction has been published in the Paris Review and n+1. She holds a PhD in English Literature from Columbia University and is a core faculty member of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. She is also a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities. She is currently writing a collection of short stories.
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Matt Sheridan Smith

Matt Sheridan Smith
is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. He is represented by Hannah Hoffman Gallery, galeria kaufmann repetto, and mother’s tankstation.

Melanie Smith

Melanie Smith

Michael Smith

Michael Smith

Genevieve Smith

Genevieve Smith
is a writer living in Brooklyn and a former Triple Canopy contributing editor. She is currently an assistant editor at Harper’s Magazine.
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Patrick Smith

Patrick Smith
is an artist living in Brooklyn. His interactive animations are collected at Vectorpark.com.
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William S. Smith

William S. Smith
is the editor of Art in America. He is a founding editor of Triple Canopy and, since 2017, an editor emeritus.
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Maria Sonevytsky

Maria Sonevytsky
is a PhD student in ethnomusicology at Columbia University and one half of the Brooklyn musical duo the Debutante Hour. She currently lives in Bakhchisaray, Crimea, but will soon relocate to the Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains to continue her dissertation fieldwork.
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The Song Cave

The Song Cave
is a publisher of books, chapbooks, and art editions.
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Kathryn Sonnabend

Kathryn Sonnabend
studied German and Architecture at Brown University and has lived in Boston, Providence, and Berlin.
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Nancy Spero
was a pioneer of feminist art. She was born in Cleveland in 1926 and died in New York City in 2009. Her work was shown in major exhibitions at Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2003); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1994); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (1994); Museum of Modern Art, New York (1992); and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1988).
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Molly Springfield

Molly Springfield
is an artist living in Washington, DC. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Washington.
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Jared Stanley
is a poet, writer, and interdisciplinary artist, He is the author of three collections of poetry, Ears, The Weeds, and Book Made of Forest. Stanley has received Fellowships from the Center for Art + Environment and the Nevada Arts Council, and teaches writing and interdisciplinary art at Sierra Nevada College, where he co-directs the SNC Poetry Center. His collaborations with the public art group Unmanned Minerals and the Intermedia Artist Megan Berner include It Calls From the Creek and Surrender.
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Elizabeth Stark
has taught at Stanford and Yale about the future of the Internet and is currently an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Stanford’s StartX.

Will Steacy

Will Steacy
was raised in Philadelphia and now resides in New York. His work has been shown in numerous gallery and museum exhibitions and has appeared in Harper’s, New York Magazine, the Paris Review, and Newsweek.
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Jessie Stead

Jessie Stead

Laura Steenberge

Laura Steenberge

Bob Stein

Bob Stein
is creator of the Criterion Collection of films, founder of the Voyager Company, an original advocate of cross-platform electronic publishing and most recently initiator and director of the Institute for the Future of the Book. He is currently developing a new digital-publishing company.
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Avi Steinberg

Avi Steinberg

Jonathan Sterne

Jonathan Sterne
is Professor and James McGill Chair in Culture and Technology in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. He is the author of MP3: The Meaning of a Format (2012), The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (2003), and numerous articles on media, technologies and the politics of culture. He is also the editor of The Sound Studies Reader (2012). His new projects consider instruments and instrumentalities; mail by cruise missile; and the intersections of disability, technology, and perception.
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Florine Stettheimer

Florine Stettheimer
(1871–1944) was an artist, poet, and designer.
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Susan Stewart
is the Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities: Professor of English and serves as Director of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton. Her most recent books of criticism are The Poet’s Freedom: A Notebook on Making (2011), The Open Studio: Essays on Art and Aesthetics (2005), and Poetry and the Fate of the Senses (2002). Her most recent books of poetry are Red Rover (2008), Columbarium (2003), which won the 2003 National Book Critics Circle award, and The Forest (1995).

Hito Steyerl

Hito Steyerl
is a filmmaker and writer. She teaches New Media Art at University of Arts Berlin and has participated in the Venice Biennale, Documenta 12, the Shanghai Biennial, and Rotterdam Film Festival. An exhibition surveying her work was recently held at Artists Space in New York.

Emily Stokes

Emily Stokes
is articles editor at T: The New York Times Style Magazine.

Ulf Stolterfoht

Ulf Stolterfoht
is a poet, essayist, and translator living in Berlin. The recipient of numerous awards, including the Peter-Huchel-Preis, his publications include four volumes of fachsprachen (the first of which, Lingos I–IX, was translated by Rosmarie Waldrop for Burning Deck), holzrauch über heslach (all Urs Engeler Editor), and neu-jerusalem (kookbooks, forthcoming). An editor of a book of cowboy poems (roughbooks), he has also translated Gertrude Stein, J. H. Prynne, and Tom Raworth into German. He has been a member of Das Weibchen since 1982, and his poems have been translated into numerous languages.

Ben Street

Ben Street
is a teacher, lecturer, and critic living in London.
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Publication Studio

Publication Studio
is an experiment in sustainable publication. They print and bind books on demand, creating original work with artists and writers, books that both respond to the conversation of the moment and can endure. Publication Studio is a laboratory for publication in its fullest sense—not just the production of books, but the production of a public. This public, which is more than a market, is created through deliberate acts: the circulation of texts; discussions and gatherings in physical space; and the maintenance of a digital commons. Together these construct a space of conversation, a public space, which beckons a public into being.
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Jonathon Sturgeon

Jonathon Sturgeon
is a writer and editor based in Brooklyn. Formerly an editor at n+1, e-flux, and the American Reader, he is now the literary editor at Flavorwire.

Anna Della Subin

Anna Della Subin
writes for publications such as the London Review of Books, the New York Times, and the White Review, among others. She is a contributing editor at Bidoun.

Stefan Sulzer

Stefan Sulzer

Sumi Ink Club

Sumi Ink Club
is a Los Angeles–based collective founded in 2005 by Sarah Anderson and Luke Fischbeck. The group meets regularly to execute topsy-turvy, detailed, collaborative drawings using ink on paper. In each of its permutations, Sumi Ink Club uses group drawings as a means to open and fortify social interactions that bleed into everyday life. Sumi Ink Club is nonhierarchical: all ages, all humans, all styles.
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Eve Sussman

Eve Sussman
is a Brooklyn-based artist and filmmaker who works collectively with Rufus Corporation. Sussman and the company have created Yuri’s Office (2009), The Rape of the Sabine Women (2006), 89 Seconds at Alcázar (2003). Their most recent work, whiteonwhite:algorithmicthriller, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and at Cristin Tierney Gallery in New York. Rufus Corporation’s work has been exhibited at museums and festivals worldwide.
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Cole Swensen

Cole Swensen

Jessica Swensen

Jessica Swensen
has been a supervising attorney in the immigration practice at the Bronx Defenders since 2016. She began at the organization—which provides criminal defense, civil legal services, advocacy, and other forms of support to indigent Bronx residents—as an immigration staff attorney in 2013. She defended clients in removal proceedings, represented clients before the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, and advised noncitizen clients on immigration consequences of criminal contacts. While in law school at Boston College, she represented clients through the Immigration and Asylum Project, volunteered with the Post-Deportation Human Rights Project, and was on the executive board of the National Lawyers Guild. She speaks Spanish.

Martine Syms

Martine Syms
is a conceptual entrepreneur based in Los Angeles. She uses publishing, video, and performance to look at the making and reception of meaning in contemporary America. She currently runs DOMINICA, an imprint dedicated to exploring blackness as a topic, a reference, a marker, and an audience in visual culture. From 2007 to 2011 Syms directed Golden Age, a project space focused on printed matter. She has presented her work at universities and museums internationally.